Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 39
... better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty ...
... better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty ...
Page 73
... better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin school . What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so . We form no guess at the time of receiving a thought , of its comparative value . And ...
... better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin school . What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so . We form no guess at the time of receiving a thought , of its comparative value . And ...
Page 87
... better dress , with trinkets in his pockets , with airs , and pretension ; an old boy sniffs thereat , and says to himself , " It's of no use ; we shall find him out to - morrow . " " What hath he done ? " is the divine question which ...
... better dress , with trinkets in his pockets , with airs , and pretension ; an old boy sniffs thereat , and says to himself , " It's of no use ; we shall find him out to - morrow . " " What hath he done ? " is the divine question which ...
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